Santa's furry helper!

Santa never left our house, ha!

Oops, Blackie has a new pal!

MERRY CHRISTMAS FURRIES!

Illustration Friday: "Holiday"

Holiday cheer...it is really all about the little furry ones isn't it?

This is Mr. Tannie Man helping me to open the box from my Mother in the deep Toasty South. This box was full of presents. But the Tannie was more interested in digging into the big box...to snuggle in. He had no interest in the presents.

Tannie has the true Christmas spirit...it's not about the presents!

Meow from all:
The Whippy Curly Tails in the Toasty South!

=^..^=

Holiday Stress! Zzzzzzzzz

Chasing holiday ornaments, spooked by Christmas tree tinsle and the looming possiblility of tree climbing....so exhausting! These 4 kitties always find time to relax and recharge their feline batteries for another day of holiday festivities.

Meow,
The Whippy Curly Tails in the Toasty South!

Ginger's link to kitty tree decorating

Just a quick note to all kitty parents out there...go to Ginger the Cat's blog and see how your sweet felines can help dress the tree! Thanks to Ginger for the link...

Illustration Friday : "Imagine"

OK, this may sound crazy...but IMAGINE wanting to go to the Vet? I love to jump in my kitty carrier...so am I nuts or what? I like to just IMAGINE!

~Miss Belle Kitty, meep

Tanner's Toy Ball

Tannie Man likes to catch his toy ball in his hind toes! LOL

Illustration Friday: "Surprise"

FLASH goes the camera! The kitty squeezes his eyes shut just in time.

"Why does she always sneak up on me? I am not posing for any more Christmas card pictures, meow!"

~Tanner (Tannie Man), Whippy Curly Tail in the Toasty South

Dog toys, what's up with that?

Oh well, so much for trying to get a cute photo for a Christmas card. The Whippys did not care for the doggie holiday props and really did not care for the Christmas tree. No climbers this year. Too much dry food, making all kitties sleepy. =^..^=

Do you think that they have been sipping on the egg nogg too ! ?

Baby Bean & Lulu--woof!

it is amazing all the wonderful people and pooches you can meet at a Starbucks. I was with my little friend Baby Bean, on the right. She and I got to meet the sweet little Lulu and her proud new little mom, on the left! I hope you enjoy this cute photo.

Illustration Friday: "Small"

Small friends in small get-away places.

Click on the image to see the details better.

This was Miss S when she was feral. Now that she has been rescued, she has been an indoor kitty for 2 years! =^..^=

Illustration Friday: "Free"

Tannie, freedom to dig in the litter box when you want! =^..^=

Blackie's watch...birds?

HAPPY THANKSGIVING from the Toasty South.

I hope you enjoy this wonderful photo of Blackie. He is always watching for birds and squirrels.

Update on Blackie's diet...well, today I treated him to a big scoop of his favorite kitty chow...it is Thanksgiving. Otherwise we are doing OK. It is hard to not give him some dry food when his looks at me in his most sad way. But he is a happy cat!

=^..^=

Sweet Calico

Hello to my 2 new friends...one furry and the other a cutie!

Can you see the sleeping kitty?

Oh some toasty towls right out of the dryer...such a good place to snooze!

Sweet Miss S

Illustration friday : "Night"

My sweet blackie, black as night! =^..^=

Hey dad, where's the FOOD?

I just love this photo. These are my brother's kittys waiting/begging for food....any kind of food. Any other beggers out there...?

Oh to be a DOG!

Our mom went to visit some friends in the Toasty Humid South.

She met this cute pup named Queso.



Mom said we would not like him because he likes to jump and lick faces a lot! We think he is cute to look at though. Click HERE to another picture of Queso.

Meow, The Whippy Curly Tails in the Toasty South =^..^=

Miss S wants many pets on the head!

I just can't get enough pets...mom had to put towls on the kitchen island, cuz we all want pets all the time! =^..^=

Belle's domestic bliss...

I love my nap time. Not sure where that Happy Cat is, but this is great.

Now if that human would hurry up and take my picture so I can get some shut-eye. Meeeeep

Illustration Friday: "Remote"

As I emerged from the remote side of the jungle, I tippy toed softly as I know the jungle creatures were watching my every move.

(& I knew that if I didn't get home soon some other backyard critter would eat my Fancy Feast dinner....meep!)

Double click on my picture, my mom says she likes how pretty my face looks in this IF!

My Sweet Baby "T"

I love to snuggle in my mom's lap. She always makes room for me even if she is blogging. Now that it is getting chilly in the Toasty South I must find mom's lap more often or this basket will do!

Should I Jump?

The BBB meeps....a sleeker BBB

Hey every furry & poodin....I am making sure that mom's router is working.

Now that I have lost some weight I am a happy kitty. Mom still gives me my favorite dry food, only a little bit in the morning and night.

Recently this is my favorite place to hide out...from that Miss S...she still nibbles on my toes!

Miss S helps rearrange the furniture

Always the helper, I am. Makin sure that the ficus tree is ok. Love the fluffy leather recliner...oh, no, mom sees me....must run! xxxooo Miss S...gonna get that Tannie Man!

Tannie Man helps unpack the speakers

Hi furry friends and all poodins....Mom got new speakers for her iPod and I got the BOX....yippy skippy....now where is that Miss S? She is sneaking around here somewhere...

Hello everyone fm Tannie Man

Mom just rearranged the living room furniture for the Fall. We get so TIRED when she does this. We find all our lost toys under the couch and the recliner. But then she brings our the bad bad noisy sucker-upper-thingy....yikes that really makes us TIRED.

Mom will post more pics later! Meowwwwwwwww. Tannie Man =^..^=

Sweet Gold Kitty...shout out!

Illustration Friday: "Lost"

Silly little urban kitty, pretends to be lost in a leafy jungle...sneaks through the woods, runs up the tall trees and then.....a door opens, Mom is home from work, time to leave the lost world of make believe to partake in the urban feeding--Fancy Feast, Grilled Tuna!

MC Kitty takes a walk

Illustration Friday: "Float"

Blackie's 5 things..

5 Things...
Mom got this from the Flying Piggies Blog and mom said I could do this....

5 Things I plan to do before I die:
1. Eat dry food every day
2. Chased the new stick toy for a good hour each day!
3. Learn to speak the human english language, so I can make sure I explain how much I love dry food
4. Learn to drive
5. Get that Miss S to stop nibbling on my toes when I am about to go to sleep

5 Things I can do:
1. Chase my stick toy around mom's bed for about 1 minute
2. Hide in my mom's walkin closet when I hear thunder.
3. Growl very loudly when someone knocks on the front door.
4. Stock that crazy Tannie Man and scare him good.
5. Woof down dry food very fast

5 Things I cannot do:
1. Open the cabinet to get the dry food.
2. Turn on the bathtub faucet for water.
3. Open the catnip tub.
4. Talk to birds and squirrels
5. Order more dry food online!

5 Things that attract me to the opposite sex:
1. Dry food
2. Dry food
3. Dry food
4. Dry food
5. Dry food

5 Things I say most often:
1. "purrrrrrrr"
2. "grrrrrrrrrr."
3. "rorlwwwwwww?"
4. "yowlllllllllll."
5. "meowwwww"

5 Celebrity crushes:
1. Oreo & Edsel
2. Timothy--rescue kitty!
3. Shaggy & the gang
4. Ginger & Nanu
5. Splash..even if he is a dog!

5 animals I would like to pass this on to:
ANY Furry who wants to play!

The Kitty Herd with new Toy

To all concerned fans of Blackie, also known as The BBB, he has been given some of his favorite dry food. Our mom could not resist The BBB's charm! She only gave him a little bit--about 2 big spoonfulls.

This is us playing with our new stick toy--it has this yellow tassle on it, we love it. We love our new cardio program!
xxxooo Miss S =^..^=

Miss Belle's Portrait

This little kitty is my brother's lastest addition to his family. He took a picture of her while I was giving her a good head scratching. Click on the photo and check out her eyes...there are no enhancements here...pretty cool!

BTW...Blackie is doing well. He is so much more active. I have given him some of his favorite dry...just a little bit! But the good news is I got him Wellness dry food and wet. He is note quite sure about this new stuff. Time will tell...

Many thanks for all the nice comments for Blackie....he loves all the kitty support!

Please send dry food, The BBB

S.O.S. from me, Blackie...mom is making me a cartoon, yikes.

Please send dry food. I do feel better now though....I run and jump all around the house.

I feel like a Whippy Curly Tail today!!

Wild Child Miss Belle

Cats...what is it that they look at that we can't see??

llustration Friday: "Fresh"

I love my little kitty
her coat is so warm.
And if I don't hurt her
She'll do me no harm
I won't pull her tail,
Or drive her away
And kitty and I
Very gently will play.
~by Mother Goose

Blackie is wishing his "fresh" wet cat food would morph into a big bowl of dry food. Sorry BBB.! He is doing great on his new diet of no dry food. I thought I would give him a boost in his morale and feature him in Illustration Friday this week. Enjoy! =^..^=

Mother & Son

These 2 are so funny. Momma Cat "MC" chases her son Happy Cat all around the house. My brother thinks that MC would rather be a solo kitty. It's like Happy never left home to strike out on his own...ha!

Anyway, they love to snooze together. They are so ying & yang. BTW...MC is spending time with my mom in another city in the Toasty South. Happy has a new roomie, Miss Belle. They both live with my brother Pablo. =^..^=

Miss S and BBB's Heart Bowl

Yesterday we had a day of cat games...since the BBB needs his cardio workout, every kitty gets a workout. This is a picture of Miss S later in the evening. She was in the midst of a cat bathe! =^..^=

Blackie's heart bowl is quite popular...so here is a closer look. By the way The BBB is doing great. He seems to have more energy and is back to wrestling with his brother, Tannie Man. I am sure it is helping that I am playing with him. I realized I had been spending so much time on the computer, time I use to spend with the kitties. More time for kitties now! =^..^=

Blackie's Hope : heart bowl

Blackie is hoping his dry food with reappear in his heart bowl. I have put wet food in the bowl, but to Blackie it is just not the same... =^..^=

Saved Kitty--The Story

My brother has rescued a kitty that was homeless! I will provide a detailed story tomorrow. Kitty was tested and found to be a healthy male, who had been fixed and declawed. Kitty got a bath too! Photo is of kitty, in my garage, before kitty was taken to the Vet. All is well for the kitty! =^..^=

The story, as told by my brother, typed by me:
The white kitty was adopted by the family of one of the people that works at our vet. The white kitty's information was posted on several "lost" pet web sites. We believe that the kitty was abandoned by a family that moved long ago. The kitty was very thin and appeared to have been on his own for a long time. He is beautiful now and will be plumped up with some love and daily feedings! =^..^=

Blackie's weightloss progress

Hi from Tannie Man, Mom says thank you to all the nice furry blogger friends for the diet tips for my brother Blackie.

See the photo of Blackie, above, that is him laying near where is food bowl use to be. He is not quite sure what is going on and is showing his feelings by keeping his ears down. Miss S and I think he is napping near where the bowl was to make sure he knows if it comes back. :(

The BBB loved his white ceramic heart decorated food bowl. We discovered something funny about The B--we think he liked the food bowl more that his food. Mom felt bad for him and gave him a spoonfull of his favorite dry food. But he would not eat it because it was not in the ceramic heart bowl. Meow, whats up with that??

Good news...because of The BBB needing to have a cardio workout, Mom has played with us all morning! She did not get on her yucky computer thingy until many hours today! We do not like the thingy that she taps taps taps on...it gets more attention that we do! (Mom, says she is going to the Pet Store today to see about new wet food....so we say THX, we love new stuff to eat, Meow......) xxx ooo Tannie Man =^..^=

Blackie needs Diet Tips...blogger friends help!

Dear blogger furry friends, Blackie has gotten very chubby and is not to comfortable. I have removed his kitty bowl that always had lots of dry food in it. The other kitties have no interest in dry food! He is so sad when he walks to his bowl and sees no dry food...I filled it with a small amount of wet food. My poor BBB.

Tonight I played with Blackie and the gold kitties...feather sticks and toy balls. Do any of you have any diet tips or feeding recommendations?

I would love to hear your pets feeding habits. xxx ooo The Whippy Curly Tails =^..^=

Miss S's Hidaway

Sometimes a day can be to much. So I hide from everyone, even my mom. Do any of you kitties out there have favorite hidaways ??? Meooooow =^..^=

Tannie Man & his stick toy in kitty condo

It is good to be me...I love my stick toy. My mom's brother will shake my stick toy at me while I am in my kitty condo. This is so much fun, until that Miss S comes along and trys to grab the stick toy! Did you see me in mom's drawing below? Sheesh, Miss S is in the drawing too. =^..^=

Illustration Friday: "Depth"

Inspired by The Whippy Curly Tails...here are Tannie Man and Miss S gazing into a tea cup...the depth of their imagination is unlimited. Enjoy =^..^=